Many books pertinent to culture change are available. This is a list of books or publications that you might find useful during your journey through into deep culture change. Let us know if you have some recommendations to add to the list.

The Leadership Challenge, Kouzes and Posner

Dementia Reconsidered, Tom Kittwood

SuperLeadership: Leading Others to Lead Themselves, Charles Manz and Henry Sims. Publisher: Prentice-Hall, New York. Focuses on leadership styles conducive to teams: "A leader's strength is measured by his or her ability to maximize the contributions of others."

Empowered Work Teams, Richard Wellings, William Byham, Jeanne Wilson. Publisher: Jossey-Bass. How to create self-directed work groups that improve quality, productivity and participation.

Leading Self-Directed Work Teams: A Guide to Developing New Team Leadership Skills, Kimball Fisher. Publisher: McGraw-Hill, New York, 1993. Addresses transition from traditional supervisory roles to leadership for teams, includes tips and checklists.

The New Language of Work, Danny Langdon from HRD Press. A different perspective on how to create a common language and approach within an organization with the obvious impact on culture.

Corporate Cultures: The Rites and Rituals of Corporate Life, Terrance E. Deal and Allan A. Kennedy; published by Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.

The Corporate Culture Sourcebook, edited by Drs. Richard Bellingham, Barry Cohen, Mark R. Edwards, and Judd Allen; Published by Human Resource Development Press, Amherst, MA

April 1993 issue of "INFO-LINE" entitled Organizational Culture. Available from the American Society for Training and Development, 703-683-8100; extensive references are listed in this booklet.

October 1994 issue of "Issues and Trends Briefing paper No. 71. On the topic of Cultural Transformation: Lessons from the Telecommunications Industry"; available from the Economics and Planning Dept. of the Edison Electric Institute; contact Rick Schadelbauer, Staff Strategic Analyst. EEI, 202-508-5703.

Business Without Bosses: How Self-Managing Teams are Building High-Performing Companies, Charles Manz & Henry Sims, Jr. Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1993. ISBN No. 0-471-57700-6. Ten case studies presented in narrative chapters and describing a variety of teams and their implementation histories, including a virtual team, a high tech team, and a management team. Includes a case on the TI plant in Malaysia.

Competing With Flexible Lateral Organizations, 2nd edition, Jay R. Galbraith. Publisher: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, Massachusetts, 1994. Quote from Preface: "One of the things that I have noticed in my experience with many matrix organizations is the great disparity in their effectiveness. Most have been failures. But there are successes. The difference between successful companies and the others is the building of an organizational capability to coordinate across units. Almost always the building of the capability meant developing people who could work in teams, exert influence without authority, and feel comfortable in a variety of settings. These companies building information systems and used planning processes to resolve conflicts. Thus much of the discussion in this book is aimed at management's role in building capability."

Designing Team-Based Organizations: New Forms for Knowledge Work, Susan Mohrman, Susan Cohen, & Allan Mohrman, Jr., of the Center for Effective Organizations at USC. Publisher: Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 1995. ISBN No. 00-7879-0080-X. Adds two important new focuses to understanding work teams: (1) focuses on teams of knowledge workers, rather than production workers, and (2) focuses on linking the teams across the organization and providing good support systems for them. A little harder to read, but extremely important for anyone planning to implement teams among technical specialists, managers, etc.

High Involvement Management: Participative Strategies for Improving Organizational Performance, Ed Lawler. Publisher: Jossey-Bass, San Francisco. ISBN No. 0-87589-686-3. Surveys many forms of participation and shows how to sequence them with SMWTs as the goal.

Inside Teams: How 20 World-Class Organizations are Winning through Teamwork, Richard Wellins, William Byham, and George Dixon of the DDI firm. Publisher: Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 1994. ISBN No. 1-55542-574-7. Short case studies in an outline form that makes bits of information very accessible, but most useful when the bits are integrated across all 20 profiles to answer a question or provide some benchmarking.

Leading Self-Directed Work Teams: A Guide to Developing New Team Leadership Skills, Kimball Fisher. Publisher: McGraw-Hill, New York, 1993. ISBN No. 0-07-021071-3. Provides good overview of issues related to the transition from traditional supervisory roles to leadership for teams, includes tips and checklists.

Leading Teams: Mastering the New Role, John Zenger, Ed Musselwhite, Kathleen Hurson, and Craig Perrin of the Zenger-Miller firm.

Leadership Trapeze: Strategies for Leadership in Team-Based Organizations, Jeanne Wilson, Jill George, and Richard Wellins with Bill Byham of the DDI firm. Publisher: Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 1994. ISBN No. 1-55542-613-1. My favorite source for guiding supervisors through the transition in their role from command/control to empowered leadership; also, has a companion workbook that people seem to like.

Self-Directed Work Teams: The New American Challenge, Jack Orsburn, Linda Moran, Ed Musselwhite, and John Zenger of the Zenger-Miller firm. Publisher: Business One Irwin, Homewood, IL 60430, 1990. ISBN No. 1-55623-341-8. Summarizes the many lessons the authors have learned about implementing teams; still an outstanding resource for an overview.

Strategic Pay: Aligning Organizational Strategies and Pay Systems, Ed Lawler. Publisher: Jossey-Bass. ISBN No. 1-55542-262-4.--includes information on pay-for-performance and skill-based pay.

Succeeding as a Self-Directed Work Team: 20 Important Questions Answered, Bob and Ann Harper of MW Corporation. (914) 271-6658. A very good book for team members to read who have a limited education or skill with the English language; inexpensive paperback; some companies bought them by the thousands.

SuperLeadership: Leading Others to Lead Themselves, Charles Manz and Henry Sims. Publisher: Prentice-Hall, New York. ISBN No. 0-13-876517-0. Focuses on a style of leadership that is tailored to SMWTs; "A leader's strength is measured by his or her ability to maximize the contributions of others rather than by how he or she bends the wills of others."

Teams & Technology: Fulfilling the Promise of the New Organization, Don Mankin, Susan Cohen, & Tora Bikson. Publisher: Harvard Business School Press. ISBN No. 0-87584-399-9. Addresses how teams and information technology should be integrated.